Orbit Capital backs Coding Giants to scale STEM education internationally

Polish educationplatform Coding Giants has secured up to €6 million in venture debt financingfrom Orbit Capital to support its international expansion.Founded eight yearsago, Coding Giants provides te…

Sainaptic lands £1M to expand AI-assisted marking technology

UK-based edtech startup Sainaptic hasraised £1 million in fresh funding to expand its AI-assisted assessment markingtechnology. The round was co-led by Cornerstone VC and Ufi Ventures, withparticipati…

Google will end ChromeOS updates in mid-2034 as Googlebook OS arrives
Google will end ChromeOS updates in mid-2034 as Googlebook OS arrives

Google will stop updating ChromeOS in mid-2034, it says on a support page for schools and businesses that manage Chromebooks. Many newer Chromebooks will be able to switch to Googlebook OS, the system behind Google’s new Googlebook laptops, which is bu…

Gamindo raises €1.4M to make corporate training more interactive

Corporate training platform Gamindo has raised €1.4 million Seed funding. The platform developed by Gamindo allows any company, with no technical skills required, to turn corporate content into inte…

Eevi raises pre-seed funding to get language learners speaking from day one

Eevi, a voice-first AI language tutor, has raised a pre-seed round led by Rockstart. The Amsterdam-based company is building a language-learning platform built around spoken conversation, using real-t…

Brighteye Ventures lands $72M first close to back the future of learning and work

Brighteye Ventures has announced a $72 million first close of their Fund III, taking the firm to a total of $245 million in AUM. Brighteye invests in early-stage European companies shaping the future…

AcademyAI raises £1.65M to close the workplace AI skills gap

AcademyAIhas raised £1.65 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to developits platform for assessing employees’ AI skills and providing training tailoredto their roles. Investors in the …

Six months and 2,000 lessons later: what MuseCool has learned about music education

Music education is deeply rooted in tradition: students often learn from teachers who, in turn, teach much as they were taught, sometimes using poor or outdated methods. UK startup MuseCool has found …

How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn
How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn

On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to wri…

Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools
Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools

Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the changes in a back-to-school post on Wednesday. The headli…